INEC Chairman Amupitan Honoured For Dedication At Law Teachers' Conference, As He Promised Reform , Free , Fair And Credible Electoral Process

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, was honoured with a plaque for his "dedication, hard work, and inspiration to many" by the Federal University of Lokoja, during the 56th Annual National Conference of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT).

The award highlighted a speech in which Prof. Amupitan pledged to collaborate with the National Assembly to deliver a “credible, fair, and free” electoral process for Nigeria.

Already under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has been vilifying Nigerians through his ant people's policies and programs, destabilizing the opposition political parties and silencing opposing views and critics, 2027 general election under his appointee Ojo Amupitan is on the watch for any credibility. Only time will tell.

Amupitan, addressing the conference, which he described as a “momentous occasion,” the INEC Chairman reflected on the foundational role of law in society. “Law is not merely a set of rules but a foundation upon which societies build their progress,” he stated, emphasizing that the electoral process is fundamentally driven by legal frameworks.

According to the INEC release, with the Electoral Act currently under amendment, Prof. Amupitan committed to active participation in the legislative process. “I will start waiting to participate in the National Assembly to be sure that we have a learning electoral process and laws that you and I and Nigerians should be proud of,” he said.

A key goal of this reform, he noted, is to reduce electoral litigations. “Let us not see electoral petitions in court,” Amupitan urged, stressing the aim to establish a fair process that inspires public confidence.

The presentation of the plaque from the Federal University of Lokoja served as a recognition of his ongoing contributions to public service and legal education, concluding an address where he also called for the support of the academic community in strengthening Nigeria's democracy.

Nigerians should not be carried away by political comments and promises but must rise up demand leadership accountable, ensure free , fair and credible elections in the country.

Source: INEC 

OBIORA IFOH, CLEMENT OJUKWU & OTHER NDIGBOS AGAINST PETER OBI'S PRESIDENTIAL BID: IMPLICATIONS TODAY & FUTURE"

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OPEN REPLY TO OBIORA IFOH'S CLAIM LP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, PUBLICITY SECRETARY NOT PARTY MEMBERS

By Prince Tony Akeni, (Interim Labour Party National Publicity Secretary)

HIGHLIGHT

"For several years before 2010, the Labour Party chapter of Delta state was abolished by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party's then national chairman, Chief (Barr.) Dan Nwanyanwu and late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then National Secretary. The national leadership stated that this was because of rogue sellout of elections to the PDP dynasty of the Delta governors at the time, James Ibori and later Emmanuel Uduaghan. After entreaties to me by a delegation led by Emeka Nkwaola of Asaba textile union, I led remnants of the party in Delta state to Abuja to the National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, to unproscribe the Delta state chapter."

"The meeting which began with awkward, high octave hostility ended with roaring success after my intense presentation of a case for Delta LP's restoration.

"After my presentation and resolution of the mission, I, in that same occasion, presented to the National Chairman, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, and his NEC a written proposal for the establishment of a "Labour University" by the Labour Party and its NLC founding institution for Nigeria's workers and underprivileged Nigerians in general. Chief Nwanyanwu enthusiastically received the proposal with the opening words: "Ideas rule the world." ...If the LU concept had been followed through by the Labour Party and the NLC, Labour University would have celebrated more than its 10th anniversary by this year.

"Beyond the successful restoration of the Delta state LP chapter by Chief Nwanyanwu's NEC, in order to expand the nationwide membership base of Labour Party at the time, I developed a membership recruitment scheme to boost the size and personality roll-call of the Labour Party in Delta state in particular and Nigeria in general. This culminated in my leading personality recruitment engagements and delegations to frontline Delta personalities such as Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos, Barr. Victor Odebala of Sapele, the late veteran labour leader Chief Frank Kokori, also in Lagos, and other non-Deltans who included Cross River state former governor, Mr. Donald Duke.*

"At that time (in 2010), over fifteen years ago to the day, Julius Abure, Obiora Ifoh's master and saviour of his political universe, was a blurred mere dot in the circle of Labour Party affairs, to borrow Muhammadu Buhari's phrase; an unknown background shadow working as a postal clerk in NIPOST, Edo state, while somewhere in the west Arabambi was roaming in the wilderness of nowhere. Neither of the two was anywhere near the pedestal of my already region-wide influence ambit, much less national activity status in the Labour Party.

"Given the above, if these creatures, Obiora Ifoh and Abayomi Arabambi, were well brought up growing up, they would lie lizard flat on their bellies to greet me in obeisance wherever they meet me. Not interrogate my membership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately, it is apparent they were not.

"While many Nigerians who are not Igbos are dying for Obi's cause, fellow Ndigbo themselves such as Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu, Joe Igbokwe, Minister David Umahi, Governor Charles Soludo, Governor Emmanuel Mbah, former governor Orji Uzor Kalu, the loquacious and delirious National Assembly Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, Prisoner Ike Ekweremadu, similar doppelgangers or evil twins of the Igbo nation and sections of stomach infrastructure Ohaneze leadership have been going about like drunken sailors in a beach party recklessly endorsing Tinubu for 2027.

"With opium abandon, they have, both overtly and covertly, set out to reduce the extraordinary generational gem Nigerians of all tribes have found in the person of Peter Obi from "Obi Nwanne of Africa" to "PO of Agulu village," in the same manner their political ancestors cornered, narrowed and minimized Azikiwe from Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha.

"Peter Obi's last best chance and the South-East's next best shot for a long time at the Presidency of Nigeria is 2027. If in 2027 Igbo nation allowed these Igbo political lice succeed to wreck Peter Obi's presidency bid while other Nigerians who are not Igbo are laying down their lives for a Peter Obi Igbo Presidency, let no Igbo person anywhere under the sun, elite or commoner, say Nigerians do not love the Igbos. It will be more correct, almost forever after, to say that Igbos do not love themselves. From 2027, it will officially become a universal maxim, signed and sealed by the Igbos themselves, that the Igbos love what is in their individual pocket and stomach more than their collective posterity and future."

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Tony 

1.  I read with profound sympathy for Igbo nation and Peter Obi, in particular, the recent bad air from one Obiora Ifoh in his reaction to a private memo addressed to the Sen. Nenadi Usman led National Executive Council (NEC) and Board of Trustees of the Labour Party, which, unfortunately, leaked and found its way to the Nigeria public a few days ago through the Vanguard and Punch newspapers of October 17 and '18 respectively, amongst others.

2.  To begin, let me dismiss with despatch Obiora's misleading claim in the above referred Punch newspaper wherein he alleged that Labour Party's national chairman, Sen. Nenadi Usman, is not a member of the party because, according to Obiora, Sen. Nenadi is not in the membership register of Abure's dead NEC of the party. A rebel band which Nigeria's highest court, the Supreme Court, comprehensively sacked on April 4, 2025. 

3.  Mr. Obiora Ifoh and one Abayomi Arabambi, another political rodent in the Julius Abure colony of felony which specializes in candidate fraud, documents forgery, grand thefts and perjury, jointly share the same title of "National Publicity Secretary" in the Supreme Court sacked defunct Julius Abure council of the party; a crass misnomer against Labour Party's constitution.

4.  Together, these two creatures constitute the ugliest, ethically depraved noise drums in the political space of contemporary Nigeria. 

5.  First, why should any Labour Party member be found in the register of a council declared dead and buried by a terminal judgment of the highest court in the land? 

6.  Secondly, all courts of Nigeria, from the lowest to the apex court, scrutinized, certified and satisfied themselves of Sen. Nenadi Usman's membership of the Labour Party, hence she was recognized as having locus standi on behalf of the party in all suits she filed against the Abure swarm, all of which she won without exception, eternally annulling and obliterating Abure's impersonating group from existence.  

7.  Next, let's look up Comrade Tony Akeni's membership of the Labour Party and his leadership status in the party. He was also declared by Obiora as one not in their dead council's membership register.

8.  For several years before 2010, the Labour Party chapter of Delta state was proscribed by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party's then national chairman, Chief (Barr.) Dan Nwanyanwu and late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then National Secretary. The Nwanyanwu NEC held that the shutting down of the party in Delta was because of rogue sellout of elections to the PDP dynasty of then Governor James Ibori and later Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.

9.  On June 12, 2010, remnant stakeholders of the disbanded Delta state LP led a delegation to me (Tony Akeni) in Benin as a Labour Party stalwart of the South-South states who was recommended to them for my reach across the party. The Delta LP delegation, led by Mr. Emeka Nkwaola of the Asaba textile union and comprising one Mr. Emmanuel Emuakpodje, Pastor Tracy Agol and others, had come to entreat me to lead them to Chief Dan Nwanyanwu to plead a case for lifting the suspension of the Delta state Labour Party chapter in order to enable them participate in elections in Delta state. 

10.  This later came to include the Delta state governorship re-run election of February 6, 2011, after Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, who was the Chief Judge of the Appeal Court Benin, in a seismic judgment that shook the country, sacked Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for electoral transgressions in the 2007 governorship election of Delta state. Justice Monica is presently the President of the Appeal Court of Nigeria, Abuja.

11.  On June 12, 2010, I was in a June 12 celebration podium at the centre of a sea of music fiesta crowds at Museum Ground, King's Square, Ring Road, Benin City, with Dr. Osagie Obayuwana, performing musicians Majek Fashek and Orits Wiliki, Apostle Comrade Paul Oyarenua and other dignitaries when the Emeka Nkwaola delegation from Delta state entreated me to a side canopy to explain their predicaments and entreaty to approach National Chairman Chief Dan Nwanyanwu to unproscribe Delta Labour Party. 

12.  I was a co-coordinator of the June 12 rally in my capacity as Director of Mobilization of Nigerians United for Democracy (NUD), whose national leader was legal luminary Femi Falana (now SAN). Dr. Obayuwana was our state leader of the NUD, while Apostle Comrade Paul Oyarenua was our Edo state chapter chairman.

13.  Arriving Abuja the following week, the late Alhaji A.A. Salaam, then the national secretary of Labour Party, received my delegation and heralded us to the front of Chief Dan Nwanyanwu. The meeting which started with awkward, high octave hostility ended with roaring success after my intense presentation of a case for Delta LP's restoration. 

14.  After my presentation and resolution of the mission, I, in that same occasion, presented to National Chairman Chief Dan Nwanyanwu and his NEC a written proposal for the establishment of a "Labour University" by the Labour Party and its NLC founding institution. 

15.  Chief Nwanyanwu enthusiastically received the proposal with the opening words: "Ideas rule the world." He went on to narrate that while he was a struggling young man fresh out of school and used to travel by "luxurious buses" from the east to Lagos, he experienced how an entire jumbo bus would be stopped by pressed passengers to stop in the middle of nowhere, and passengers would run into the bush to relieve themselves. 

16.  Nwanyanwu said he afterwards at some forums suggested that toilet compartments should be built into luxurious buses. He narrated that a few years later, to his pleasant surprise, the first set of luxurious buses fitted with toilet closets arrived Nigeria. He concluded that my idea of a "Labour University for less privileged Nigeria workers and Nigerians in general" could see the light of day some day just like his closet idea in luxurious buses.

17.  After the Abuja delegation, Emeka Nkwaola of Imo state became the Delta state chairman of Labour Party, Emmanuel Emuakpodje of Kokori town, Delta Central, the state secretary, Emmanuel Amalokwe of Obiarukwu, Delta North, the organizing secretary and I, from Isoko nation, Delta South, the Delta state Labour Party publicity secretary, amongst others. Chief Dan Nwanyanwu and other persons mentioned above except A.A. Salaam and Majek Fashek are still alive to confirm this report. 

18.  Beyond the successful restoration of the Delta state LP chapter by Chief Nwanyanwu's NEC, in order to expand the nationwide membership base of Labour Party at the time, I developed a membership recruitment scheme to boost the size and personality roll-call of the Labour Party in Delta state in particular and Nigeria in general. This culminated in my leading personality recruitment engagements and delegations to frontline Delta personalities such as Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos, Barr. Victor Odebala of Sapele, the late veteran labour leader Chief Frank Kokori, also in Lagos, and other non-Deltans who included Cross River state former governor, Mr. Donald Duke, in his office at Victoria Island, Lagos.

19.  Earlier, when Prof. Pat Utomi visited my kingdom of Ozoro in 2007 with his ADC presidential campaign train and was received in the home of 2nd Republic deputy Speaker of defunct Bendel State and 3rd Republic Senator, late Sen. Francis "Spanner" Okpozo, I, being a double-barrel prince of the kingdom, was by Sen. Okpozo's side to receive and hear Utomi on behalf of our palace political elite.

20.  Earlier in 2006 when the brilliant late Sen. Pius Ewherido, a former deputy Speaker of Delta state, came to Ozoro kingdom with his campaign entourage to sell his Delta governorship aspiration and Sen. Okpozo also received him on behalf of our kingdom, I was also delegated to receive him as observer on behalf of Ewherido's friends and associates of Ozoro kingdom. Pius attended Notre Dame College (NDC) Ozoro as a kid and had many friends and well-wishers in our kingdom. We were looking to convert him to the Labour Party if PDP missed him as their candidate.

21.  In the 2010 meeting with Chief Kokori in his home in Lagos, he addressed us on a wide range of issues from my entreaty of him to join the Labour Party as a veteran labour doyen, his arrest, torture and gulag travails during the June 12 struggle under tyrant Abacha to Chief Great Ogboru's contest-and-run-away perpetual governorship syndrome. You could feel intimately all over the war-tested labour veteran a traffic of exhaustion from moral betrayals and the agony of a loving one-woman man as he pointed upstairs over our heads, where he nursed his cherished wife who, he told us, had been bedridden for years. Chief Kokori concluded that day, "I don't have the energy to do this anymore. But maybe, for one last time because of your delegation, I will think over it." 

22.  That one last time made us to see him again, thin and bone weary, in Chief Ogboru's re-run governorship rally at Ughelli in 2011. He died a dozen years later on December 7, 2023 at the age of 80.

23.  Except late Chief Frank Kokori, Sen. Francis Okpozo and Sen. Pius Ewherido, all the persons mentioned above, fortunately, are alive. Go and verify, as Peter Obi would say.

24.  In 2010, over fifteen years ago to the day, Julius Abure, Obiora Ifoh's master and saviour of his political universe, was a blurred mere dot in the circle of Labour Party affairs, to borrow Muhammadu Buhari's phrase; an unknown background shadow working as a postal clerk in NIPOST, Edo state, while loitering somewhere in the west Arabambi was in the wilderness of nowhere. Neither was anywhere near the pedestal of my already region-wide influence ambit, much less national activity status in the Labour Party.

25.  Quite ahead of me in LP affairs then were the irrepressible Veteran Comrade Lawson Osagie. Side by side Pa Victor Aguebor, Pa Irowa, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor (Ultimate Equals) and Pa Gabano, I held the Labour Party media trumpet in the background during the years of Adams Oshiomhole as governor of Edo state. 

26.  I was among the backroom influencers of the party when we organized and coordinated the Edo state Labour Party congress at Gabano Hotel, near Uniben, which brought Bishop Samuel Omede to office as Edo state LP chairman. Afterwards, from the dim backyards of his NIPOST employment Julius Abure clawed, scrambled and spidered his way into the spot of state secretary in Bishop Omede's state council of the Labour Party.

27.  Given the above, if these creatures, Obiora Ifoh and Abayomi Arabambi, were well brought up growing up, they would lie lizard flat on their bellies to greet me in obeisance wherever they meet me. Not interrogate my membership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately, it is apparent they were not.

*Hold Up. Stand Up for Peter Obi*

28.  About 20years ago, I read the editorial of a Tanzanian newspaper that shook me to my bones from the acid contempt, even hate, with which many African nations see Nigeria and our country's internal politics.

29.  It stated that Nigeria was one of the most absurd countries in the world where its citizens reduce their best to their lowest worst. Citing the life and times of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe to exemplify the point, the Tanzanian newspaper said Nigeria had achieved the unbelievable feat of reducing the great Nnamdi Azikiwe from "Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha."

30.  Together, African countries and the rest of the world are watching again. How, while many Nigerians who are not Igbos are dying for Obi's cause, while fellow Ndigbo themselves such as Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu, Joe Igbokwe, Minister David Umahi, Governor Charles Soludo, Governor Emmanuel Mbah, former governor Orji Uzor Kalu, the loquacious and delirious National Assembly Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu, Prisoner Ike Ekweremadu, similar doppelgangers or evil twins of the Igbo nation and sections of stomach infrastructure Ohaneze leadership have been going about like drunken sailors in a beach party recklessly endorsing Tinubu for 2027. 

31.  With opium abandon, some like Obiorah Ifoh, Clement Ojukwu and Benjamin Kalu have, both overtly and covertly, set out to reduce the extraordinary generational gem Nigerians of all tribes have found in the person of Peter Obi from "Obi Nwanne of Africa" to "PO of Agulu village," in the same manner their political ancestors cornered, narrowed and minimized Azikiwe from Zik of Africa to Owelle of Onitsha.

32.  Great Nigerians like Femi Falana, Dele Farotimi, David Hundeyin (South-West), Yunusa Tanko, Haruna Goro, Nana Kazaure (North), Deacon Chris Iyovwaye, Smart Madu Ajaja, Aisha Yesufu, Magnus Oraka, Peter Akah (Niger Delta South-South), Reginald Nnorom, Precious Oruche "Mama Pee" (South-East) and many others have erased crooked old boundaries in Nigeria's political topography to prove that Nigeria can be one huge, united country and Africa's democratic powerhouse.

33.  Peter Obi's last best chance and the South-East's next best chance for a long time at the Presidency of Nigeria is 2027. If in 2027 Igbo nation allowed Igbo political lice succeed to wreck Peter Obi's presidency bid while other Nigerians who are not Igbo are laying down their lives for a Peter Obi Igbo Presidency, let no Igbo person anywhere under the sun, elite or commoner, say Nigerians do not love the Igbos. It will be more correct, almost forever after, to say that Igbos do not love themselves. From 2027, it will officially become a universal maxim, signed and sealed by the Igbos themselves, that the Igbos love what is in their individual pocket and stomach more than their collective posterity and future.

34.  In our time, we must reject the poison of these Ndigbo wolves against Peter Obi's person and presidential project. We must reject the Tanzanian curse and stand up for Peter Obi in 2027, provided he stands up for himself by filtering out and disbanding his choristers of misleading praise singers, and rising above sycophancy indulgence to pillar his cause with genuine trench soldiers who tell him the truth that will lead to his victory.

35.  Peter Obi and our Labour Party NEC must rise with a sense of urgency to launch confidence building agenda of actions and activities that will encourage and strengthen our party's remaining few loyal elected members of the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly across the country. No effort should be spared to inspire them to remain true to the PO 2027 presidency project.

36.  In case Peter Obi and the Sen. Nenadi council are not adequately aware, currently these brave steadfast loyalists of our party are like forlorn IDP orphans in the National Assembly and various State Houses of Assembly. 

37.  They tip-toe about their daily activities within the National Assembly and State Assembly complexes to survive daily pressures on them to defect to the ruling APC and other ruling parties in various states. 

38.  They are under constant psychological onslaught of Tinubu's conquest storms under Senate President Godswill Akpabio's and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas' brinkmanship; an ancient Roman triumvirate determined to ensure Tinubu's wholesale state capture of Nigeria into a one-party banana pseudo-democracy. The time for all true Labour Party faithfuls to rally round them is now before it's too late.

God bless and keep us all, as many as will continue to stand tall by the truth and refuse to bow to Nigeria's god of cash-out corruption and political cash crops of compromised politics.

*Tony Akeni Le Moin*

Labour Party National Publicity Secretary (Interim)

Attempted Coup: Nigerian Defence Intelligence Reportedly Detains 16 Senior Military Officers Over Alleged Coup Plot To Overthrow President Tinubu

Defense Headquarters: : We Never Mentioned Any Coup Attempt But Professional Misconducts!

No fewer than 16 Senior Military Officers have been detained over an alleged coup plot to Overthrow President Bola  Tinubu.

The details of the detained officers are yet to be made public but they are Army Officers attached to NSA Nuhu Ribadu's office, including an Ex-Governor’s Nephew.

According to Sahara Reports in an exclusive report, at least sixteen senior military officers have been detained by the Armed Forces of Nigeria for allegedly planning a coup d’etat to overthrow Nigerian President.

However, the Nigerian Army in a press statement on Saturday said the detained officers under investigation were arrested and detained for professional misconduct been activities linked to the Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary but was never linked to an alleged attempted military coup, called the report a spurious one.

The statement signed by the Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau in Abuja,  the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) categorically stated that the claims of any coup attempt  are entirely false, malicious, and intended to cause unnecessary tension and distrust among the populace. The decision regarding the cancellation of 65th independence anniversary parade  was  to allow Mr President attend a strategic bilateral meeting outside the country and for members of the AFN to sustain the momentum on the fight against terrorism, insurgency and banditry.

Nigeria witness the first military coup d'etat in January 1966 where the first generation of the country's leaders where brutally assassinated. A coup d'état is an overt attempt by a military organisation or other government elites to unseat an incumbent person or leadership.

The present socio-economic, political and State of insecurity in the country is at alarming rates as the government policies and programs are basically anti masses. The Nigerian citizens are hoping for a democratic change of government by 2027 if the electoral umpire will be impartial with the electoral processes as majority are tired of the APC led pro Terrorists Regime. 

However, the opposition political parties are in comatose with the agents of the ruling party APC destabilizing both Labour Party (LP) and People's Democratic Party (PDP). The hope for a peaceful and democratic change of government via a free, fair and credible elections are becoming slime.

Neighbouring countries in West Africa like Mali, Bokina Faso and Niger Republic are currently under military juntas.

Despite APC mis-governance and maladministration of the highest order,, support for any military intervention will be very minimal especially among the elites and those who either witness or are part of the June 12 1993 elections and struggles that claimed many lives before the the country returned to democracy in 1999.

The decades of military rules and unchecked corruption lead the country to this present Golgotha where the country is regarded as the global capital of poverty.

Read below, the Army statement:

PRESS RELEASE

DHQ NEVER MENTIONED ANY COUP ATTEMPT 

1.  The attention of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has been drawn to a false and misleading report by an online publication insinuating that the cancellation of activities marking Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary was linked to an alleged attempted military coup. The report also made spurious references to the recent DHQ press release announcing the arrest of sixteen officers currently under investigation for professional misconduct.

2.  The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) wishes to categorically state that the claims by the said publication are entirely false, malicious, and intended to cause unnecessary tension and distrust among the populace. The decision regarding the cancellellation of 65th independence anniversary parade  was  to allow Mr President attend a strategic bilateral meeting outside the country and for members of the AFN to sustain the momentum on the fight against terrorism, insurgency and banditry.

3.  Furthermore, the DHQ wishes to reassure Nigerians that the ongoing investigation involving the sixteen officers is a routine internal process aimed at ensuring discipline and professionalism is maintained within the ranks. An investigative panel has been duly constituted, and its findings would be made public.

4.  The DHQ calls on all peace loving citizens to continue to provide necessary support to the security agents. The FG, the legislature and the judiciary are working closely for the safety, development and well being of the nation. Democracy is forever. 

5.  The DHQ urges members of the public to disregard the falsehood being circulated by the purveyors of misinformation and enemies of our nation. The Armed Forces of Nigeria remains firmly loyal to the Constitution and the Federal government under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.

Signed:

TUKUR GUSAU

Brigadier General

Director Defence Information, Abuja

18 October 2025

Insecurity in Nigeria: Fans of the Romanian national football team Identify with Nigerian Christians ( Photos)

 

'Defend Nigerian Christians'

Fans of the Romanian national football team unfurled a banner before their Worlld Cup Qualifier

PRESS RELEASE: INEC MUST RESPECT COURT JUDGEMENTS ON LABOUR PARTY (LP) LEADERSHIP

The Labour Party has noted, with deep concern, reports that the erstwhile National Chairman of the Party, Barr. Julius Abure, attended the quarterly consultative meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and leaders of political parties held on Tuesday, 14th October 2025.

While this brazen act of impersonation may appear comical to some, it is, in truth, a tragic reflection of the extent to which certain elements within INEC are willing to compromise the integrity of the Commission by lending themselves to such ignoble conduct in utter defiance of valid and subsisting court judgements, including that of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

For the avoidance of doubt, on 4th April 2025, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in Appeal No. SC/CV/56/2025, delivered a unanimous landmark judgement unequivocally declaring that Barr. Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. This pronouncement was further reinforced by the Federal High Court, Abuja, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1523/2025, delivered on 15th August 2025, which expressly rejected Julius Abure's prayers based on the earlier judgement of the apex court that held that he was no longer the national chairman of the Labour Party.

It is instructive to note that in the said latter suit, INEC itself deposed to a counter affidavit dated 13th August 2025, affirming under oath that Julius Abure was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party.

Against this background, therefore, the Labour Party views the conduct of certain rogue elements within INEC who permitted Abure’s attendance at the meeting as not only reprehensible but also a deliberate affront to the authority of our courts. INEC cannot, in one breath, depose under oath that Abure is no longer chairman, and in another, accord him recognition. Such conduct amounts to contempt of court and a grave desecration of the sanctity of our judicial system, particularly the pronouncements of the Supreme Court.

Even the former INEC leadership, despite its alleged partisanship and meddlesomeness, demonstrated better respect for the rule of law. On 29th July 2024, INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu ordered Barr. Julius Abure out of its consultative meeting with political party leaders, on the clear grounds that he was no longer the National Chairman of the Labour Party. That decision came even before the Supreme Court and Federal High Court judgements that have since laid the matter to rest.

The question, therefore, is: from where did the present actors within INEC derive the authority to override and overrule these court pronouncements and enable Abure’s participation in today’s meeting? This reckless display of impunity is unacceptable and must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians.

While the current INEC leadership may be transitional, it must remember that even a brief tenure can leave a lasting stain on history. Every action taken today will be judged tomorrow. Posterity records everything.

The Labour Party therefore calls on INEC to immediately enforce the valid judgements of our courts regarding the leadership of the Party. If the current leadership lacks the courage to uphold the rule of law, it should at least refrain from further tarnishing what remains of the Commission’s credibility before its eventual exit.

Signed:

Ken Eluma Asogwa

Senior Special Adviser, Media, to the Interim National Chairman, Labour Party, Senator Nenadi E. Usman.

14th October, 202

POINT-BLANK: NEW INEC CHAIRMAN PROF. AMUPITAN — A REDEEMER OR ANOTHER HOPE BETRAYED, TIME WILL TELL - LABOUR PARTY

By Prince Tony Akeni



"Labour Party, in particular, will forever remember Prof. Mahmood Yakubu's pretentious cooperation in matters of justice in political parties' internal leadership affairs. While pretending to follow due process in enabling Labour Party to resolve its Julius Abure led tenure rebellion, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in another hand, in unashamed treachery, actually connived to betray justice for the party to the last minute of his exit. Prof Mahmood deliberately retained the name of the Supreme Court sacked Abure on INEC website as the party's national chairman, clinically sabotaged the Labour Party from participating in crucial elections throughout the country by unlawfully delisting the party from fielding candidates in the 2025 local government elections of various states, the Abuja municipal council elections coming up in 2026 and all other tiers of election across the country to the end of his tenure...

"As many Nigerians who are not yet under the collective hypnotism of APC's baptism of delusion *WILL ASK* , what rationale, except the opium of corruption harvest, made Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to retain on INEC's portal the defunct Julius Abure led leadership of Labour Party in spite of having the certified judgment of the Supreme Court and its corroborating interpretation of the Abuja Federal High Court, both of which unequivocally ruled that the Julius Abure leadership of the Labour Party had irreversibly ended?


"That is the Prof. Yakubu Mahmood the Labour Party and 230million Nigerians remember, and history centuries away will also remember and wrinkle their noses at his final resting place."

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Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan has a fate larger than life thrust at his feet. To either redeem the largest democracy in Africa or further mutilate and bury its corpse which the ballot master-liar of all time, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, has left behind as INEC chairman.

Above the pecks, glamour and glitter of the highly visible office which Prof. Amupitan now occupies, he must choose what he wishes to achieve and be remembered for.

He must choose who he will serve and the legacy he wishes to leave behind for his name and posterity.

He must choose whether to be honoured by more than 230million Nigerians who employed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu or to serve the unconstitutional wishes and caprices of a single man, Tinubu, who appointed him.


To help him make that choice, Prof. Amupitan will do well to reflect how more than 230million Nigerians at home and all over the world will forever remember his immediate predecessor, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood.


Under the Obasanjo years, when Nigerians' thought Prof. Maurice Iwu, the INEC chairman at the time, was the worst electoral referee that happened to Nigeria, Prof. Attahiru Jega happened to Nigeria and erased that record. This was to the extent that one Elder Godsday Orubebe, who was the Minister of Niger Delta in the Jonathan administration of the time, screamed blue murder and embarked on a one-man rampage against INEC at the 2015 presidential election collation centre in front of the world press and international election observers.


At the close of that era when Nigerians' thought that it was impossible to manufacture a worse election overseer than Jega, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood came to mortally mar the mood and seal the hopes of Nigerians that elections could ever be free, fair or credible in our country, destroying the last vestige of Nigeria's electoral integrity almost to the point of no redemption.


Before Mahmood's tenures as INEC chairman, Nigerians merely lamented if their votes would count but with some reservoir of hope. However, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood buried that hope and made it a proverb of despair set in concrete, creating an endemic voter apathy throughout Nigeria that has no comparison in any other country in Africa and almost the whole world.


In the run-up to the epic 2023 general elections, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood promised Nigerians and the world in countless media briefings that ballot results would be transmitted in real-time from the polling units and entered from BIVAS records to the IREV servers for global integrity.


Mahmood promised this would be a process that shall not be compromised, violated or accepted by INEC, only to brazenly take the opposite stand against his sworn process by dismissing BIVAS results as non-compulsory in the collation of election results. He and his returning electoral commissioners across the country then uploaded insanely mutilated and duplicated result sheets supplied by the ruling party to announce the 2023 results, stood by those mutilations at the post-election tribunals, and returned the snatch-and-run-with-it concoctions of the presidential election, numerous governorship and countless National and State Assembly results as winners against the actual landslide presidential victory of the Labour Party and similar victory by other opposition political parties at different tiers of the polls.


As his last achievement for the ruling APC, at the end of which President Tinubu gave him a parting send-off with the national award of Commander of the Order of the Niger, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood also successfully pulled off a historic pre-election heist to make rigging easier for the ruling party in 2027 by manufacturing out-of-the-world phantom records of new voters registration in President Tinubu's home state of Osun.


Mahmood awarded a record 393,269 new voters in Osun state alone against just 1,998 new voters in the entire five South-East states combined. Nearly half a million new voters in the single state of Osun which has a population of 4.6million citizens, and less than 2,000 new voters in all the five states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo which command over 36million citizens!


Labour Party, in particular, will forever remember Prof. Mahmood Yakubu's pretentious cooperation in matters of justice in political parties' internal leadership affairs. While pretending to follow due process in enabling Labour Party to resolve its Julius Abure led tenure rebellion, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in another hand, in unashamed treachery, actually connived to betray justice for the party to the last minute of his exit. Prof Mahmood deliberately retained the name of the Supreme Court sacked Abure on INEC website as the party's national chairman, clinically sabotaged the Labour Party from participating in crucial elections throughout the country by unlawfully delisting the party from fielding candidates in the 2025 local government elections of various states, the Abuja municipal council elections coming up in 2026 and all other tiers of election across the country to the end of his tenure. Mission accomplished, national award received, evil done and dusted, APC's 2027 victory guaranteed! So they think.


As many Nigerians who are not yet under the collective hypnotism of APC's baptism of delusion, what rationale, except the opium of corruption harvest, made Prof. Yakubu Mahmood to retain on INEC's portal the defunct Julius Abure led leadership of Labour Party in spite of having the certified judgment of the Supreme Court and its corroborating interpretation of the Abuja Federal High Court, both of which unequivocally ruled that the Julius Abure leadership of the Labour Party had irreversibly ended?


That is the Prof. Yakubu Mahmood the Labour Party and 230million Nigerians remember, and history centuries away will also remember and wrinkle their noses at his final resting place.


For the Labour Party, the first all-important litmus test that the new INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, will pass to prove that he has come to serve Nigeria in ernest of his oath of office is to remove the last dust and trace of Julius Abure and his defunct council members from INEC's portal and replace them with the Nenadi Usman led council which the statutory NEC of the party has submitted as its executive council. This will be in accord with the Supreme Court's judgment that the leadership of political parties is strictly the result of the internal decision and processes of parties. This also complies with both Nigeria's and global conventions which forbid leadership vacuum in the management of public institutions.


As Prof. Joash Amupitan steps into the shoes of his departed predecessor, he must realize that he is not only on the radar of Nigerians but the entire civilize world, the West and emerging democracies of the world which look unto Nigeria for good or bad examples.



Amupitan must prove to the world that he is not another election puppet out to serve the dictates of incumbents and ballot vampires for his personal enrichment at the expense of Nigeria's international image, global respect, progress and advancement, like most of his predecessors, but a true electoral umpire out to serve and save our country's long troubled democracy.



What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Nothing but eternal condemnation. Both the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran agree on this at Mark 8:36 and Q57:20 respectively.



Joash Amupitan, get off the gory road of power vapour and walk the glory road of eternity's favour.




Prince Tony Akeni,

Labour Party National

Publicity Secretary (Interim)

APC Government Owned the Terrorists: Name of towns deserted In KWARA STATE Because of Bandits Attacks as at NOW (+Video)

These Are the Name of towns deserted In KWARA STATE By Band!t as at NOW

1) Ologomo Town

2) Ajegunle Town

3) AgbanTown

4) Alebe Town

5) Owode Town

6) Alasoro Town

7) Alawan Town

8) Bankole Town

9) Oreke Town

10) Ganmu Town

11) Babanla Town

12) Ayetoro Town

13) Budo Town

14) Arifowomo Town

15) Apata Olosun Town

16) Oreke Isale Town

17) Sagbe  Town

18) Olohun Tele Town

19) Oke Ode Town

20) Ilu Agunjin Town.

KWARA SOUTH IS  BLEEDING

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APC government came to Power in the year 2015 with empty rhetorics to fight and end Boko Haram terrorism but the party only succeeded in intriduciynore terrorists groups such as the Fulani herdsmen, bandits, megsl kidnapping for ransom and the current group unleashing terrors in the North Central of the country.

APC government has failed in the primary responsibilities of governance, protection of lives and properties but Tinubu led APC gangs only knows how to collect taxes, reduced the purchasing power of the citizens, sharing abject poverty for greater numbers of people.

 It is the constitutional duty of the President to protect lives and property — not to multiply taxes while citizens are fleeing their hometowns.

You cannot build national prosperity on insecurity.

When people abandon their homes, farmlands, and local economies out of fear, the foundation of governance collapses.

Security is not just a moral duty — it is the economic backbone of every stable nation.

How do you tax a farmer who can’t access his land?

How do you expect productivity from a citizen who sleeps in fear?

Every displaced family represents a shrinking economy — a town losing its workforce, a market losing its buyers, and a government losing its legitimacy.

Yet in this country, the death of Nigerians has become just another statistic — names reduced to numbers, headlines recycled like weather reports.

We mourn for a day, move on by tomorrow, and the government calls it “progress.”

Leadership without security is taxation without humanity.

While the government focuses on new levies and economic jargon, the real economy — the people — is dying in silence.

And those joining this administration to tell us it’s making progress are the worst kind of humans —

soulless defenders of failure.

They are like the Uruk-hai from The Lord of the Rings — bred for destruction, loyal only to evil, and blind to the ruin they serve.

To worsen it, they travel across the world gaslighting citizens —

telling the international community that there is no corruption back home,

while the nation they left behind bleeds from the wounds of theft, lies, and silence.

And the saddest part?

Many of you think you’re supporting your party while all this evil is taking place.

You defend the same system that is destroying your future,

clap for oppressors who wouldn’t spend a second living your reality,

and mock those who still dare to speak.

You cannot measure GDP when the ground itself is unsafe.

Until lives are protected, every new tax is blood money collected from the displaced and forgotten.

A serious government protects first, reforms next, and taxes last.

But in today’s Nigeria, the order is reversed — we are being taxed for a nation we can no longer live in.

Bandits on Rampage In Kwara State, Kill One, Abduct Stepbrother In Fresh Attack In Gbale Community, Face Resistance From Locals

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Armed bandits were reportedly on Rampage in renewed wave of attacks across Kwara’s riverine and forested communities, many of which have faced repeated kidnappings and killings in recent months.


According to the reports on Thursday, Bandits again struck Edu Local Government Area in Kwara State, killing one person and abducting another during an early-morning raid in Gbale community. Different eyewitnesses accounts confirmed that the attackers arrived around 2:00 a.m. but were met with fierce resistance from local hunters and vigilantes, who engaged them with superior firepower.

Overwhelmed, the gunmen retreated toward Bishewa settlement. In Bishewa, the assailants launched another assault, killing one of two stepbrothers in their home and abducting the other.

“They killed Ndako, the elder brother, and took the younger one, Audu, away,” a source told reporters.

The renewed wave of attacks has escalated tension across Kwara’s riverine and forested communities, many of which have faced repeated kidnappings and killings in recent months.

In response, the Nigerian Army has reportedly deployed a full brigade and heavy equipment to Kwara South and parts of Kwara North to flush out bandits from forest hideouts.

According to Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, troops were observed advancing through Oke Ode and Babanla in Ifelodun Local Government Area.

The operation, conducted under Operation Fasan Yanma, also covers the Edu and Patigi councils, where soldiers are combing dense forests frequently used by kidnappers for ransom activities

THE FALLACY OF A BLAMELESS GOVERNMENT: A TREATISE ON THE MISDIAGNOSIS OF NIGERIA’S PROBLEMS

Bandits 

By Taiwo Akiniami

There is a growing movement in Nigeria, one that argues that “the problem of Nigeria is Nigerians.” They say, “Let’s forget government. Let’s focus on ourselves.” They point to the carpenter who cheats, the doctor who defrauds, the mechanic who lies, the teacher who neglects. Their conclusion? “The failure of the nation lies not in the state, but in the citizen.”

At first, this sounds noble. Indeed, citizens must take responsibility for their conduct. But when examined closely, this argument is both shallow and dangerous, for it exonerates government and erases the moral and structural accountability of leadership.

If those who govern us are not imported, if they are Nigerians, products of our culture, schools, and communities, then how do we separate “the people” from “the government”? When analysts say “Nigerians are Nigeria’s problem” yet conveniently remove government from their diagnosis, they reveal a deeper intellectual dishonesty: they seek to absolve power while condemning the powerless.

If we follow this logic, then let us take it to its conclusion:

If government is not part of Nigeria’s problem, then government is unnecessary.

Let us abolish the state, dismantle its institutions, and return to a state of nature where everyone governs himself, a condition we already seem dangerously close to in our present national reality.

But no sane society does that.

Government exists precisely because human weakness demands structure, accountability, and justice. To say “government can’t do everything” is true, but it is not a message for Nigeria, where the question is not what government cannot do, but what it has done in accordance with its constitutional duty to ensure the welfare and security of the people.

To now say “government is not responsible for anything” is not realism; it is tyranny wrapped in populist language and emboldening lawlessness.

THE VANISHING IDEA OF ACCOUNTABILITY

In mature democracies, opposition is the conscience of governance. In the United Kingdom, the opposition is not a passive critic, it is a government-in-waiting, armed with its own social, political, and economic programs. It presents viable alternatives to the ruling party, woos the people with ideas, and dissects every major policy, addressing the nation after each significant government statement.

In the United States, the pattern is similar. After every State of the Union Address, the opposition delivers its own formal response, line by line, policy by policy, offering citizens an ideologically grounded alternative vision of governance. Opposition is not rebellion; it is a pillar of democracy.

In Nigeria, there is no such balance. The President delivers an Independence Day address, and no opposition party steps forward to critique its economic assumptions, social content, or policy soundness. Instead, the duty of dissent has fallen to ordinary citizens.

Today, it is the people, writers, journalists, social commentators, activists—who constitute the only meaningful opposition left. And when private citizens dare to speak truth to power, they are branded “bitter,” “unpatriotic,” or “the problem of Nigeria.”

THE COLLAPSE OF TRUE DEMOCRACY

Our democracy has been emptied of opposition, accountability, and courage.

The ruling elite governs without scrutiny; the opposition sleeps without shame; and the people are told to be silent in the name of patriotism.

We are witnessing a democracy that functions like an autocracy, where citizens are blamed for corruption while the corrupt are celebrated. The public good has been replaced with private greed, and moral responsibility has been outsourced to the powerless.

THE TRUE DIAGNOSIS

Yes, Nigerians must fix Nigeria but that includes those in power: ministers, governors, lawmakers, civil servants, and local officials who shape policy, control budgets, and enforce the law. Leadership is not a separate species; it is drawn from the citizenry.

When you remove government from the analysis, you commit a grave intellectual error—you amputate the very organ that drives the body.

Reform must therefore begin from both ends:

A responsible citizenry, committed to integrity and civic duty.

A responsive government, bound by law, transparency, and justice.

You cannot cure a nation by blaming its patients while excusing its doctors.

THE PATH FORWARD

Let us rebuild a participatory democracy where government is not a deity but a servant; where opposition is not treason but patriotism; and where truth is not punished as disloyalty.

Let us teach our children that governance is not an escape from accountability, but its highest test.

A country that silences criticism in the name of peace is not seeking peace, it is postponing explosion.

Nigeria must now choose: either to confront its leadership failures or to keep blaming its victims.

5 Months in Marriage: A Lieutenant Colonel Set Ablaze by wife in Akwa Ibom State

A Nigerian Army officer Dr Samson Haruna was reportedly set Ablaze by his wife at Wellington Bassey Barracks, at Ibagwa, Abak Local government Area in Akwa Ibom State.

Lieutenant Haruna  was a new recruited military officer from Jos. He graduated as a medical doctor before joining the military and was commissioned in the army with the rank of lieutenant last year in 2024.

According to a report, he got married to his wife Mrs Samson Haruna in April 2025. On September 22nd 2025, they had a heated argument over her suspicion of him cheating on her and one thing led to another and she doused him with petrol and set him on fire.

He was barely 5 months in the marriage when the incident happened at Wellington Bassey Barracks, at Ibagwa, Abak Local government Area in Akwa Ibom State and was rushed to the military clinic attached to the barrack before being transfered to the university of Uyo teaching hospital where he died from his injuries.

 

His wife, a medical personnel (nurse) has been arrested and is in police custody waiting to be charged to court.

RIP Lieutenant Dr, Samson.

PRESS RELEASE : Killings in Ilorin — Alaafin takes proactive steps to fish out perpetrators, checkmate criminal onslaughts

The Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Engineer Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1, ,has called on Nigerians to stand together against blood guzzlers and enemies of state, nature, and sound reasoning, who take solace in mindless killings of innocent souls.

This, he said would reinforce collective will, to completely snatch the country and destiny from the jaws of insanity and barbarism, just as socio-cultural orientations that uphold the sanctity of life and the intrinsic dignity in the human person must never be surrendered to the ungodly.

Oba Owoade gave the admonition on the heels of recent killings of some people who were  of Yoruba' extraction by those suspected as Fulani herdsmen at Oke Ode  area in Kwara State.

Disturbed about this ugly development , and putting into consideration the fact that Yorubas and Fulanis had  for decades been living harmoniously without let or hindrance,  Alaafin had  contacted the Kwara State Governor,  AbdulRahman  AbdulRasaq on the incident and how best he could come in , in order to nip in the bud the criminal onslaught by the bandits.

The Governor in his response lauded the Alaafin for his concerned , visionary style of administration and as the Titan of Yorubaland , assured the Paramount Ruler that a battalion of soldiers had been deployed to the scene of the gory incident .

The  Alaafin who lamented about the mindless killings masterminded by suspected Fulani herdsmen  wondered why the herdsmen became threats to peace and security, adding they had for long been in existence without serious criminal records as is presently the case.

Oba Owoade enjoined the Federal Government to ensure that all those found culpable in the mindless killings in Kwara State are brought to justice and to serve as a credible deterrence.

According to the Alaafin, ‘’there can be no national development without relative peace and stability.  There have been greater challenges of security in recent times than at any point in time in our history, thus rendering our political stability fragile, democratic institutions and processes fluid,

"" Government, political leaders and followers, and all of us, must have the courage and honesty to get to the root causes of our current state of insecurity, underpinned by criminality, insurgency and of recent terrorism by herdsmen’’.

He went further,  "’Our leaders and followers should not take  the issue of security for granted, but to ensure urgent and immediate steps  are taken to consciously respond to current threats by architectonic designing and building a security system which would create a stable and relatively peaceful environment, conducive for national development. We must accept the reality that while it is necessary to create unity in diversity, we must identify and respect our differences, which is diversity in unity"".

While eulogizing security agencies for their steadfastness and commitment to duties, Alaafin who warned against acts that are detrimental to peace, orderliness and unity of the country, assured all ethnic groups living in the metropolis of adequate protection of lives and properties.

‘’Before now, Oyo Empire under the reign of Alaafin not only remained the first to provide cattle ranches for Fulani herdsmen in Yoruba land, another ten acres of land were made available for convenience of the herdsmen free of charge, in order to ensure harmonious relationship and peaceful co-existence among all ethnic groups residing in the metropolis’’.

Oba  Owoade added, ‘’whenever there are skirmishes between farmers and the hersmen, the Royal Father would adopt his age-long conflict resolution mechanisms, which provides opportunity to interact with the parties concerned, promotes consensus-building, social bridge reconstructions and enactment of order in the  Empire"".

                            

Bode Durojaiye, Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin, Paramount Ruler of Oyo Kingdom and the Superior Head of Yorubaland

POLITICAL LEADERS, LABOUR & CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS, OTHERS HOLD NATIONAL WEBINAR FOR 2027 ELECTIONS IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 65TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY OF NIGERIA

 

MEDIA STATEMENT

30th September, 2025

…….JONATHAN, OSINBAJO, JEGA, OBI, KWAKWANSO, AMEACHI, UTOMI, AGBAKOBA OTHERS SET TO ADDRESS  

…..SGF, GOVERNORS FORUM, SENATE & HOUSE COMMITTEES ON ELECTORAL REFORMS, MEDIA ICONS INVITED AS SPECIAL GUESTS 

……..THE PRESS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE 

A major National Electoral Reforms Dialogue, to drive the birth of a National Movement for Credible Elections in 2027, is being convened by National Consultative Front, NCFront and Labour & Civil Society Front, LCSF in Partnership with Nigeria Electoral Reforms Coalition, NERCO and Partners for Electoral Reforms

The Pan Nigerian Multi Stakeholders Political Dialogue is aimed at making Nigerians take full ownership of the 2027 elections and has been scheduled to hold in commemoration of Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary under the *Theme: “Critical & Mandatory Constitutional Amendments For Credible Elections in 2027”* to be Chaired by Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, who will be assisted by Former Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, GCON.

Special Guests at this all important Citizens led Initiative are Former Presidents and Vice Presidents of Nigeria, Secretary to the Federal Government, SGF, Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, Chairman of Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Reforms and INEC Commissioner on Information, among others 

Leading Speakers and Panelists invited to the historic event are: Prof Attahiru Jega (Former INEC Chairman), Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN,(Former President, NBA), Dr Usman Bugaje ( Former MP), Comrade Joe Ajearo (NLC President), Comrade Festus Osofo (President of TUC), Mr Labaran Maku (Former Minister), Dr Oby Ezekwesili (Former Minister) Prof Pat Utomi, Sen Shehu Sanni, (Former MP) Alhaji Yusuf Mamman Dantalle (IPAC Chairman) Mr Samson Itodo (YIAGA Africa), Engr Buba Galadima (Political Activist), Comrade Isa Aremu, (Labour Leader), Hon (Amb) Nkoyo Toyo (Former Envoy and MP), Dr Bilikisu Magoro (Delegate, 2014 National Confab), Barr Femi Falana,SAN & Comrade Ene Obi (Civil Society Leaders) among other invited Speakers and Panelists and Leaders of thought, who are essentially past and present Presidential Aspirants in Nigeria.

The Press and Senior Media Practitioners are specially invited to support and cover this very auspicious National Electoral Reforms rally initiated towards constructive engagement of the National Assembly and INEC as follows:

Date: Wednesday, 1st October, 2025

Webinar Venue: Zoom (An Official Zoom Link will be sent to you as a follow up to this Invite)

Time: 2:00pm Prompt 

All interested participants can confirm their attendance and register to participate via the secretariat contact numbers below for planning and logistics purposes, as we look forward to receiving Nigerian Stakeholders at the National Electoral Reforms Webinar 

Your generous support towards a successful hosting of this very crucial electoral reform intervention shall also be duly appreciated as this Independence Day National WEBINAR will be followed by a special two day National Political Summit on Electoral Reforms to be hosted in Abuja in mid October.

Please accept the assurances of our highest regards. Thank you.

Sincerely Yours,

Signed 

Mallam Hamisu San Turaki

Secretary, LOC

For Conveners

WEBINAR RSVP: +234 806 000 2562, +234706 161 2566, +2348188451511

PRESS STATEMENT: ADC Youth Wing resorting to personal attacks against Dr. Tanko , Very Unfortunate — Obident Movement

The attention of the Obidient Movement Worldwide Borno State Chapter has been drawn to the recent statement by the ADC Youth Wing targeting our respected Global Coordinator, Dr. Tanko Yunusa who just left Borno and Yobe enroute Katsina State even on his birthday being today, we wake up with this. 

Rather than dealing with the fundamental issues raised by Dr. Tanko for the collective good, the Youth Wing unfortunately resorted to personal attacks.

For the record as investigated by us , Dr. Tanko Yunusa voted in the FCT Bwari Area Council comprising 8 polling units, and he delivered all of them to Mr. Peter Obi with a landslide victory. This is verifiable. His loyalty, consistency, and commitment to the ideals of the Obidient Movement cannot be questioned.

Beyond that, Dr. Tanko’s track record in Nigerian politics is well-documented:

As IPAC Chairman, he successfully led two tenures and institutionalized the Political Parties Leadership and Training Institute in Kuru, which continues to train political leaders from national chairmen down to the grassroots across the 37 states including the FCT.

As a member of the National Peace Committee led by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), he contributed to Nigeria’s peaceful democratic transitions.

In the struggle for democratic accountability, he also led the Save Nigeria Group as Field Marshal, a movement that played a decisive role in stabilizing Nigeria’s democracy, including securing President Jonathan’s tenure.

So, when referencing Dr. Tanko Yunusa’s political activism and democratic contributions, one can go on and on. The facts speak louder than personal attacks. We therefore urge critics to engage with the issues he has raised, which are for the benefit of all Nigerians and for the strengthening of our democratic institutions.

The Obidient Movement is not a political party but a people-driven platform inspired by the vision of Mr. Peter Obi, who remains strongly with the Movement. While we strongly supported the idea of the coalition how ever it must be seen to be fair to all concerned with equity and justice , every genuine stakeholder must now understand this and guaranteed. 

We urge all stakeholders to focus on unity and the larger vision of building a New Nigeria. Personal attacks and divisive rhetoric only serve our opponents. Together, under the ideology of Mr. Peter Obi, we remain unshaken in our resolve to restore hope and rebuild lives.

Signed:

Ali Maina

Obidient Movement (OM) Borno State Media Team.

OLUBADAN CORONATION: HONOURS, ENCOMIUMS FOR ALAAFIN IN IBADAN, AS RESIDENTS THUNDEROUSLY ROARED, " IKU BABA YEYE, AUTHENTIC HEAD OF YORUBALAND"

It was honours and encomiums galore for the Titan of Yorubaland, His Imperial Majesty, the Alaafin and Paramount Ruler of Oyo Kingdom, Oba Engineer Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1, today  in Ibadan ,Oyo State Capital ,  as elated residents could not hold back their support and love for the Paramount Ruler.

Alaafin' was in the State capital door the coronation of the new Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Adewolu  Ladoja.

The happy - looking residents, including the praise chanters,  on sighting the motorcade of the Alaafin moved closer and continuously roared "" Iku Baba  Yeye, Olori gbogbo Oba Ile Yoruba'", amid panegyric by the praise chanters. 

Alaafin & Olugbo

Findings revealed that the residents , both young and old have been closely monitoring the activities of Oba Owoade since ascended the throne of his forefathers and we're of the conviction that the Alaafin  has truly 

established a successful brand as ""a Builder of strong bridges of

understanding and brotherhood, not only aiming traditional rulers in Yorubaland,  but across the country.

Another testimony to Alaafin's  legacy, according to some residents was that the

quintessential Monarch has consistently used his exalted position to

send to Nigerians, irrespective of religious, or ethnic backgrounds that with him, leadership of oneness and true friendship with others remain his fulcrum.

Alaafin & Sultan 

" The  hard earned reputation of  this detribalised Monarch, the Alaafin,  as an

inspirational, strong and visionary leader; a relentless bridge builder and a missionary for hope and his constant message of peace, love and harmony have endeared him to the hearts of many Nigerians. That is what we are telling the world today"", some of the residents confided .

Others spoke about Oba Owoade's stylish in appearance, saying  "" he is an handsome man with grace and elegance".

"" Honestly, he is Royal Father who is  pleasingly ingenious and simple. His natural elegance and complement always amaze us. Who will see him ( Alaafin) and not admire, love or envy him"", they asserted.

 Bode Durojaiye, 

Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin, Paramount Ruler of Oyo Kingdom and the Superior Head of Yorubaland.

TINUBU'S LIES AT OLUBADAN CORONATION: THE ECONOMY HAS TURNED THE CORNER, THERE'S LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, APPRECIATES NIGERIANS FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN SUFFERING

As Nigerians are still wallowing in abject poverty occasioned by APC misrule since 2016, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State spews fresh Lies that the economy of the country has turned the corner for good, following the success of the economic reforms introduced by his administration over two years ago.

 

Under Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reckless leadership, it has been maximum pains for greater numbers of the citizens.

Tinubu whose government has continues the Buhari's legacy of maladministration assured Nigerians that they would soon begin to enjoy the fruits of the reforms and thanked them for their patience and support in suffering while looting and more borrowing for looting are still ongoing.

The President spoke on Friday at the coronation of his friend and political ally, Imperial Majesty Oba (Sen) Abdul-Rashidi Adewolu Akanmu Ladoja, as the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland.

 

He said: "Today, I am honoured to bring the cheering news that our economy has turned around and there is now light at the end of the tunnel.'' 

 Nigeria’s economy has “bounced back” and was on the path of growth and prosperity, despite the widespread hardship, hunger, and inflation ravaging the country under his watch.

Tinubu told the gathering that the country had weathered the storm of economic collapse and was now moving toward recovery.

“To many of you here present, today I am honoured and I’m very proud to give you the cheering news that the economy has turned the corner. There is a bright light at the end of the tunnel,” Tinubu said.

He likened Nigerians’ current suffering under his economic reforms to the pain of a “surgery,” insisting the sacrifices would eventually produce growth and prosperity while every senator and house of representatives members quarterly received nothing less than a billion naira.

The looting under APC leadership since 2015 till date is second to none in our history.

“Your suffering is the pain of a painful surgery. But it is now returned to the moment of growth and prosperity waiting for us ahead. Thank you for your perseverance. Thank you for your endurance,” Tinubu declared.

Speaking about the new Olubadan, Tinubu said: "All the things we started together with great expectations, and the history we shared are coming to pass. I pray that you will live long and be celebrated as one of the rare leaders in history to ascend the throne of your forefathers.

 

"I pray that God will grant you more years of joy, prosperity and relevance,'' the President said.

 

He aid that the Olubadan of Ibadanland played a significant role in Nigeria's political history, and had remained a pillar of hope through the experiences of impeachment, perseverance and resilience as a former governor of the state.

He thanked all the former and serving governors, the traditional rulers, for attending the coronation.

 

"It is a joy and great excitement for us. I appreciate you all. As for me, this is homecoming,'' he stated.

 

Anyone still keeping any hope in Tinubu's renewed pains has no hope!

Or

WHICH CORNER HAS THE ECONOMY  TURNED UNDER TINUBU LED APC ANTI PEOPLE LEADERSHIP?

Nigeria's FCT Minister Nyesom Wike acquires up to 4 properties in Florida from proceeds of corruption, Sowore Tenders Evidence

Wike, his wife and their three Children 

Rights activist Omoyele Sowore has made public evidences confirming that Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS, and his wife Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, a Court of Appeal judge, used "Quit Claim Deeds" to transfer three different Florida properties into the names of their children Jordan, Joaquim, and Jasmyne.

According to Sowore, these are the Quit Claim Deeds that Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS, and his wife Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, a Court of Appeal judge, used to transfer three different Florida properties into the names of their children Jordan, Joaquim, and Jasmyne. These transfers were done in 2023, but Mr. International Thief said he was not aware. With this discovery, it is now also clear that Wike has a fourth property in Florida at 113 Spring Creek Lane, Winter Springs, FL 32708.

This explains why Wike boasted on Channels Television that he “didn’t know” his wife and children owned mansions in the United States. But the international thief has now been caught in his own web of lies. By the way, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS was due for follow-up treatment for a new ailment and chest infection that recently kept him in London for two weeks, which he was going to do under the guise of attending the UN General Assembly with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu but yesterday the VP, Kashim Shettima was asked to lead the delegation with 7 other ministers, Wike decided to bail out and several state governors have also been told to stay back for now. There is no hiding place anymore.

EXPLAINER AS TO WHY Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS, AND HIS WIFE ARE USING A QUIT DEED TO TRANSFER THEIR LAUNDERED WEALTH TO THEIR THREE KIDS: 

A Quit Claim Deed is one of the simplest property transfer documents in U.S. real estate law. It allows one person, the grantor, to sign over whatever ownership interest they may have in a property to another person, the grantee. Crucially, it offers no guarantees the grantor makes no promise that the title is valid, clear, or even legitimate. In short, it transfers “whatever interest” the grantor has, nothing more.

Ordinarily, quit claim deeds are used for routine family transactions, a husband adding a wife to a title, parents transferring property to children, or heirs resolving paperwork after an inheritance. Because they bypass warranties and detailed title checks, they are cheap, quick, and often escape close scrutiny.

But this simplicity is exactly why kleptocrats love them. Corrupt officials exploit "quit claim deeds" to launder stolen wealth. By transferring properties into the names of wives, children, or other relatives, they hide their true ownership. On paper, the transactions appear to be ordinary family planning. In reality, they are deliberate strategies to conceal the original source of illicit funds. No public sale, no market-value exchange, no visible money trail, just the quiet concealment of corruption beneath harmless looking paperwork.

This is precisely what Wike has done. Properties in Florida, purchased with the proceeds of corruption, were quietly moved into the names of his wife, herself a senior judicial officer in Nigeria, and their children. The pattern is a textbook case of laundering stolen Nigerian wealth into U.S. real estate, using quit claim deeds as legal camouflage.

 Under U.S. law, such transactions amount to money laundering and trafficking in stolen property, serious crimes punishable under both state and federal statutes. They are also subject to asset seizure and forfeiture under the U.S. Department of Justice’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

Wike’s Florida deeds are the very trail of corruption, the very evidence that US prosecutors need to unravel his kleptocracy and reclaim assets stolen from the people of Nigeria.

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